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Ethical and social sourcing practices seminar

The social procurement journey, with all its risks and opportunities, is underway. But there seems to be a noticeable gap between current practice and policy connecting us to the next phase of sustainable purchasing. This one day seminar will help you bridge that gap, exploring the what, why and how of including social value in your supply chain and procurement process. The seminar will address:

• Mapping your way along the path of “Legal, Ethical, and Engagement”
• Implications from ISO, trade agreements, ethics, and professional standards
• Making the business case along with implementation steps
• Measuring outcomes of social impact through procurement
• Tactical initiatives and perspectives from leading organizations
• Peer process case study analysis

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Seminar:

• Limited to Maximum 25 participants
• Recommended 2-3 per organization
• Fee: $175.00 per person ($150 each for 2 or more per organization)

Faculty:

Larry Berglund, Author & Consultant
John Kay, CEO, Realize Strategies
David LePage, Principal, ASI CCC

Location

Surrey Central Public Library
10350 University Drive, Surrey, BC, V3T 4B8

8:30 am - 4:30 pm
312-2555 Commercial Drive

Innoweave is pleased to partner with MOSAIC and enp Canada to offer a Social Enterprise workshop, facilitated by David LePage.

The workshop is designed to help leadership teams of 3-4 (including board members) start to explore a concrete opportunity or idea for creating a social enterprise by:

• Assessing the market for their potential product or service
• Identifying potential customers
• Developing potential pricing structures
• Identifying next steps to become launch-ready

The Innoweave Social Enterprise workshop builds on the Innoweave Introduction to Social Enterprise webinar. You are encouraged to view this previously recorded webinar online prior to submitting your application to the workshop.

Before applying for this workshop, please complete the Self-Assessment for Social Enterprise

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Deadline:

Applications for this workshop are due by Friday, November 7th. Space is limited. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday, November 14th.  

To apply for this workshop:

• Complete the Social Enterprise Self-Assessment; you will be asked to include your results code in your application.
• Click here and follow the instructions to create an application. Prior to creating an application, you will need to create an account and log in. Once you are logged in, start a new submission under "Innoweave Applications" and choose Social Enterprise workshop.
• Complete the application in full and please remember to click "Submit Application" when you are done. Only one application form per team is required.

Participating organizations will also be eligible to apply for a small implementation grant in January 2015 to engage a coach to help them with development following the workshop. To learn more about Innoweave Implementation Grants, click here.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info at innoweave.ca.

Featuring Adrian Banford:
Adrian will reflect on processes for sustaining farms and rural livelihoods. Read more >>

Upcoming Rural Development webinars

Featuring Paul Born:
Paul will reflect on collaborative leadership, community engagement and collective impact. Paul is the President and cofounder of the Tamarack Institute which since 2001 has provided leadership in Canada on issues of citizen engagement, collaborative leadership and community innovation. Prior to Tamarack, Paul was the Executive Director and co-founder of the Community Opportunities Development Association one of Canada’s leading community economic development organizations that was recognized by the United Nations as one of the top 40 projects in the world. Paul was elected into the world’s largest network of social innovators, as a Senior Ashoka Fellow in 2013. Read more >>

Upcoming Rural Development webinars

Redefining the nature of economy and value

LNE Global Live is your access point to creating a new economic reality. It’s a conversation and exploration of new ideas, new ways of living to create abundance, equality and sustainability.

Living the New Economy is hosting a week of events in Victoria and Globally through Online streaming on Nov8-12, 2014. LNE is designed to energize, accelerate and celebrate the people, institutions and collaborations that are bringing a new economic movement to life. These events will inspire new collaborations, facilitate new project partnerships, accelerate the work of social entrepreneurs, and showcase local innovation.

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2014 Theme: Integration

The “new economy”, along with many of its facets (shared spaces, alternative currencies, impact investing, gift economy, indigenomics, permaculture and so on), is an EMERGING paradigm. As such, most of us are just opening our eyes to many of these practices and principles, and even many of the global leaders in these conversations have few peers to look to in their respective fields. As an emerging set of ideas, practices & distinctions, the new economy builds momentum and gains social traction through our individual and collective INTEGRATION of its principles.

Throughout the five days of LNE Global Live 2014, speakers and audience members will be encouraged to notice how these facets weave together to form a visionary whole, and we will be encouraging all participants to integrate more and more new economy practices into their own lives. Each speaker will talk about the ways they integrate the new economy into their own lives, business and communities and talk about what they don’t integrate yet and why. We will talk about things that can be done quickly and things that take time.

This year we wish to ensure that all our participants, whether joining us in Victoria or from elsewhere in the world via livestream, end up with lots of ideas, information, links & specific access points to INTEGRATE these new principles into their lives – in a nature & scope that feels most aligned. We’ll be giving you lots of different ways to INTEGRATE the new economy into your world – whether you think of yourself as a new economy rookie.. or global leader.. you’re going to learn something new. THANK YOU for your interest in helping this conversation gain momentum! We’ll see you at LNE GLOBAL LIVE 2014.

12pm ET

 

Featuring Don Richardson:

Don will reflect on aboriginal/remote community development. Don Richardson has over 25 years experience as a skilled facilitator capable of building agreements between project proponents, community/non-governmental organizations, government agencies and Aboriginal communities. He fosters constructive engagement to create “shared value” between communities and infrastructure / resource extraction projects and operations. He has extensive global experience with environmental assessments, communications, socio-economics and enhancing community well-being. >> Read more

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